Update: Broadway Strike ended on November 28, 2007 As the strike by the stagehands continues this busy holiday season, the lights remain off on much of Broadway, New York’s busy theater district near Times Square. Stagehands, the folks who work behind the scenes to create all those magnificent Broadway shows, are at war with the […]
Dasara Festival is synonymous with arrangement of dolls in South India, particularly in Mysore (Karnataka), Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. During our travels in California a few years back, we found the below arrangement of dolls at a Hindu temple in San Diego. Dasara Dolls at Shiva-Vishnu Temple, San Diego (2005) According to the folks […]
A suicide bomber killed 115 and wounded 250 others in a failed attempt to kill former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi today. Benazir Bhutto, who was unhurt in the attack, has just returned from a eight-year-long self-imposed exile to participate in the political process under encouragement from the Americans. Bhutto was traveling in […]
India is both a horror show and a heavenly experience at the same time. We should know. After all, we’ve watched this confoundingly complex country for over four decades -Â at close quarters first and then from a distance. And Paul Theroux knows India well too. He has obviously spent some time there, in the 1970s and […]
Media house Times Group’s new YoList classifieds web site has debuted, adding to the clutter in this online advertising segment. YoList has been launched in beta (trial version) and currently all ads posted on the web site are free. Registered users of Times Group’ portal IndiaTimes.com can use their existing user id and password to access the […]
Yes, of course. And so do most governments including India. To believe anything else would be naive. Who can forget the horrifying news reports in the late 1970s of policemen pouring acid into the eyes of undertrial prisoners in Bhagalpur (located in the North Indian state of Bihar) or the recent video footage of a […]